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Jan 20

Mandoo (NYC: Midtown)

Food 20: NYC

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There's a Koreatown near Madison Square (the scale is no way near the epic size of the LA one), about 7 blocks from my office. It is rather neat block with lots of nice polish and slick Korean restaurant. There's this very good dumpling house with a front window view of the kitchen. The green = veggie, white = pork and pink = seafood. All VERY VERY good! Very satisfied. :D My friend told me that awhile ago some copy cat open a dumpling house on the same block with the same open front window kitchen...but the quality is so bad that it closed down very soon. A bit walking for lunch hour but this sure beats the deli fodo I'm so sick of.

Freda | January 20, 2006 11:59 PM


Comments:

hahaa really? i'm not very familiar with ktown besides mandoo bar, few regular rsts and crazy drunk karaoke

donny | January 25, 2006 02:52 AM

yup thick skin but soo good! There seems to be many 'specialized" korean restaurant in korea town here. There's a soup-only place (oxtail soup only...I heard?)

Freda | January 24, 2006 12:10 PM

you didn't try the kim chi mandoo? yes the skin looks thick but very good...juicy. good jap chae also

donny | January 21, 2006 04:43 PM

From pictures the skin seems thick, but it's still very good right?
You can order them fried or steamed?

Joan | January 21, 2006 05:32 AM

You know how most korean restaurants don't have dumplings in their menu, so I was surprised to see a lot of shops specialised in dumplings when I went to Korea.
The pink ones are seafood? Thought they were kimchi!

seat | January 20, 2006 07:41 PM